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HARNESS SADDLE.

Patented Dec. 26, 1882.

llllll UNITED STATES I PATENT FFICE.

MATTHEW WV. LYNCH, OF MADISON, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO DEXTERCURTIS, OF SAME PLACE.

HARNESS-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,590, dated December 26, 1882.

Application filed February 15, 188:2. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MATTHEW W. LYNCH, of Madison, in the county of Dane and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and 5 useful Improvements in Harness-Saddles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of this specification, and in [O which- Figure 1 is a rear elevation of a harness-saddle embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 00 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a- 15 similar view taken on the line y y, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference in the several figures denote the same parts.

This invention has relation to an improved construction of the saddle of a harness, and to 20 novel means for attaching or securing the check-hook thereto.

Referring to the drawings, A A represent the pads ot'the saddle secured to the pad-strap B in the tisua lmanner. To the top of the pad- 2 strap, between the pads, is secured, by means of two rivets, c c, a fiat metal plate, 0, the ends of which extend out some distance beyond the rivets, as shown. Projecting up from the middle of this plate 0 isa screw-threaded o stud, D, which passes up through the strapE, which covers thepad-strap, and also up through aperforation in the shank of the check-hook F, being provided at its upper end with a screw-nut, G, as shown. When the screw-nut 3 5 G is screwed on in place it clamps the strap E and hook F tightlydown to the plate 0;

but its upper end is left in such close proximity to the upper part of the hookas to permit the entrance or withdrawal of the check-rein strap only when the latter is turned edgewise. 4.0

In harness-saddles as usually constructed the pad-strap is allowed to bend in the middle, midway between the pads, and the upper ends of the pads consequently pinch and chafe the backbone of the animal, rendering him sore .5 and very uncomfortable. In my invention, however, this ditficulty is overcome entirely by so connecting the metal plate (3 to the padst'r'ap as to completely bridge the backbone of the animal by an inflexible bridge, and thus qo prevent the pads from touching it. With this arrangement the flexibility of the pad-strap beyond the points of connection with the plate is not affected, and the pads are permitted to readily conform to the back of the animal. 5

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new- The combination of the pad-strap B and its pads with the rigid inflexible metal plate 0, bearing the screw-threaded stem D, and se 60 cured by rivets c c to the upper side of the pad-strap and bridging the backbone of the horse the pad-covering strap E, the saddlestrap, the upwardly-projecting screw-threaded stem D, the checkbook having its shank he- 6 tween the strap E and the saddle-strap, and the clamping-nut G, the Whole constructed and arranged substantially as described.

MATTHEW W. LYNCH.

Witnesses:

HENRY KEssENIoH, A. H. KAYsER. 

